Yep, unless you've got one of a quite small list of well-supported cards. Those are not so powerful these days, but if you've got one then you're still worlds better off than with an Intel.

I've tried... two ATI (back then) cards, one I never got to work, and the other found all sorts of interesting ways to crash and malfunction. Have to admit I haven't tried again since - the devil you know and all that.

Working with a complex scene in Blender with a Intel "graphics" is about as fun as rubbing sandpaper in your eye.

HTTPS, as a protocol, seems fine. The flaws seem to have been specific implementations of the protocols, or with their algorithms (reminder that HTTPS is modular in that regard).

Annoyingly, my astigmatism makes me see three of the damn things for every one - that wavelength seems to pass right through my glasses without any refraction.

Obligatory linkage.

You don't even need those.

Grab a sharpie or other permanent black marker. A few coats with this will dim the LED without blocking it - just keep adding coats until it's as dark as you like.

Make sure you give it time for the coat to dry - just scribbling on it won't do - mark, wait a moment, mark, wait, repeat.

What color LEDs are in your room?

Blue LEDs are terrible. They are so prevalent because they look "futuristic" and they are cheaper to produce, from my understanding.

Red LEDs would likely be the most innocuous.

He's not joking. The light sensors on your retina are kept in a feedback loop, and all it takes is a single photon interaction to nudge that loop and cause activation.

Granted the photon has to hit the receptor - but many receptors are connected to a single... ganglion? Not sure what neural cell it is - but receptors are ganged so that a single photon interaction in any one of them is detected.

Yes, because allowing my stuff to consume a tiny fraction of their normal draw is the same as "rolling coal."

Focus on the blue ones. Blue light interacets with serotonin/melatonin and can delay/prevent sleep.

Hell, one of my external hard drives has a power light that is quite visible through duct tape.

You'd think they could just distribute the load a little bit, instead of cramming everyone and every function into one place.

Building A goes down, you can operate at reduced capacity by carrying on with Building B.

Ssshhh.

Slashdot is really a huge covert communications channel, I'm sure. You've seen the nonsense AC posts? I'm pretty sure those are coded messages :P

Yep, I'm sure Prater comes on, gives himself a few modpoints, and personally mods you down.

More likely you got downmodded for half-offtopic political ranting.

The complaint is probably more about fossil fuel consumption and associated pollution. That's a lot of crap being spewed into the air.

He's still a jackass, though.

Some more learning for you.

Plate tectonics may happen very slowly, but they're still going.